no arranged terror: no forcing of image, plan,or thought:...no propaganda, no humbling of reality to precept:terror pervades but is not arranged, all possibilitiesof escape open: no route shut,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Like a canoe route across the great lake on whose shoreOne is left trapped, grumbling not so much at bad luck as...Because only this one side of experience is ever revealed.And that meant something.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Alas, human vices, however horrible one might imagine them to be, contain the proof (were it only in their infinite expansion) of ...man's longing for the infinite; but it is a longing that often takes the wrong route.... It is my belief that the reason behind all culpable excesses lies in this depravation of the sense of the infinite.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

The poem is lonely. It is lonely and en route. Its author stays with it. Does this very fact not place the poem already here, at i...ts inception, in the encounter, in the mystery of encounter?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

It might sound a paradoxical thing to say--for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental tim...e--but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Government by average opinion is merely a circuitous method of going to the devil; those who profess to lead but in fact slavishly... follow this average opinion are simply the fastest runners and the loudest squeakers of the herd which is rushing blindly down to its destruction.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »